4,020,271 Kaiser Permanente members are signed up to use their Personal Health Record, which is 63 % of the eligible membership. A picture is worth 4,000,000 words, so here’s the new image. Note that I changed the Y axis to accommodate future growth :).

Adoption of My Health Manager, the personal health record available on kp.org

When I joined Kaiser Permanente in 2008, there were 2.5 million members registered to use My Health Manager, no mobile access, and the slope of the growth was still increasing.

In a world where people have said that consumers aren’t interested in personal health records, I offer just two words to describe the image of adoption here: hockey stick.

Through My Health Manager, members can view their medical record, email their providers, check lab test results, order prescription refills, and manage appointments from their computers or handheld devices. In 2011 members signed on to My Health Manager more than 74 million times and took advantage of the website features in record numbers: